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  1. 05-18-11, 03:40 PM #1
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    Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    The HDD in my Dell Inspiron 2200 took a nose dive today. Not a good week for my Mini micro farm..... I think I'm gonna cry now.

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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Ugh... I hate that. Good luck getting up and running again!
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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Dude...must be some crazy vibes goin' on in the Midwest these days, eh?

    WAIT a sec! Is that an older notebook style? Like EIDE? I may have a HDD for you ... PM me please!
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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    How ironic. We were just talking about DELL HHDs over in the Im Pissed thread.

    Does it use standard HHDs?
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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Not nearly so bad, but today I learned that you shouldn't kick the power button on your UPS with your foot...
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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxwell View Post
    Not nearly so bad, but today I learned that you shouldn't kick the power button on your UPS with your foot...
    LOL Maxwell. That reminds me.... quick story here.

    Jack Daniel the founder of the whiskey company by the same name tries to open his safe one day. When he repeatedly fails to open it Mr. Daniel gets angry and kicks the safe whereby he breaks his foot. Mr. Daniel dies some days later due to complications stemming from the broken foot.

    @joker & DrPop: Yeppers, its a standard 2.5" 5400 RPM ide drive. But I might have a solution. I am going to attempt a USB install of Dotsch_UX and run the lappy diskless. Hopefully I can get it to access a partition on my server to store BOINC data and updates.

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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Quote Originally Posted by Fire$torm View Post
    LOL Maxwell. That reminds me.... quick story here.

    Jack Daniel the founder of the whiskey company by the same name tries to open his safe one day. When he repeatedly fails to open it Mr. Daniel gets angry and kicks the safe whereby he breaks his foot. Mr. Daniel dies some days later due to complications stemming from the broken foot.

    @joker & DrPop: Yeppers, its a standard 2.5" 5400 RPM ide drive. But I might have a solution. I am going to attempt a USB install of Dotsch_UX and run the lappy diskless. Hopefully I can get it to access a partition on my server to store BOINC data and updates.
    Dotsch does have instructions for doing a PXE boot with persistence up on his website. I also ran for quite a while on USB Keys that I moved between machines. So if you set it up for the USB Key boot, it will save your BOINC data to the USB key.
    (That was a fun way to get work for systems that didn't have network access.
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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Quote Originally Posted by Mumps View Post
    Dotsch does have instructions for doing a PXE boot with persistence up on his website. I also ran for quite a while on USB Keys that I moved between machines. So if you set it up for the USB Key boot, it will save your BOINC data to the USB key.
    (That was a fun way to get work for systems that didn't have network access.
    Question: Would it be hard to reconfigure Dotsch to save BOINC project data to a shared network partition?

    I know I would need to edit fstab.conf but what is the BOINC file(s) that need to be changed?

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    Re: Another One Bites The Dust...... #$%$^#$&&$

    Why did I have this strange vision of you before you kicked it saying (in your best Dolph Lundgren voice) I must break you.
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